Forum edition:2ND EDITION KENYA

SCIENCE AND ENGINERING FAIR

(KSEF)
CATEGORY: COMPUTER SCIENCE
TITLE: THE SMART PEN
PRESENTERS: ANTHONNY
MUTHIANI
LELA ZEULIA
SCHOOL: KAEWA HIGH SCHOOL
SUB COUNTY: KATHIANI
VENUE: KATHIANI BOYS HIGH
SCHOOL
YEAR: 2014

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 DECLARATION
We declare that this work has never been presented in KSEF.
Presenter

NAME SIGN

ANTHONNY MUTHIANI ………….

LELA ZEULIA ………….

PATRON:

MR.WAMBUA ………….

PRINCIPAL:

MRS.MULINGE ……………

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 ABSTRACT

Smart pen is made to make work easier for students, teachers

and the general public who are keen on note taking and safe
storage. The technology uses a smart pen and mobile phone for
data collection .The pen comprises a Bluetooth transceiver,
camera, battery, memory, a processor and ink cartridge. Each
pen has a unique ID and paired to a mobile phone that has
Bluetooth and is GPS enabled. The pen captures the data being
entered into the paper by sensing movement .Once you press
down on a special type of paper to write, the pens components
are activated. The pen stores what has been written on paper
as the person writes .The same information can be send to
other devices that are Bluetooth enabled for storage or
reference. This makes storage of information more effective as
records are stored in the memory cards.
The method of storage is not expensive and saves a lot of time
and labour as the written information does not have to be
typed in the computer, instead the memory card is inserted in
the computer via the card reader and the information can be
easily printed.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Our sincere appreciation goes to the Almighty Lord for
having stocked wisdom of great value to us and enabling
us to come up with this project. We wish also to appreciate
the contribution of our patron, the principal and all those
who made any slight effort in making the project a
success.

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TABLE OF CONTETS
COVER PAGE…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….I
DECLARATION………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..II
ABSTRACT……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..III
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..IV
TABLE OF CONTENTS…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….V
TABLE OF DIAGRAMS……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..VI
1.0 CHAPTER 1……………………………………………………………………………………………1
1.1 INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….1
1.2 BACKGROUND INFORMATION…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..1
1.3 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………1
1.4 OBJECTIVES………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..1
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….2
1.6 LIMITATIONS……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..2
1.7 ASSUMPTIONS…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..2
2.0 CHAPTER 2……………………………………………………………………………………….....3
2.1 LITERATURE REVIEW…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………3
2.2 SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………3
2.3 USEFULNESS OF PROJECT …………………………………………………………………………………………………….........3
3.0 CHAPTER 3…………………………………………………………………………………………4
3.1 METHODOLOGY……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….4
3.2 APPARATUS…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……………….4
3.3 PROCEDURE……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……………4
3.4 OBSERVATIONS………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………5
3.5 PARAMETERS…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………5
3.6 EFFECT OF CHANGE IN PARAMETERS……………………………………………………………………………………………5
3.7 CONCLUSION………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….5
4.0 CHAPTER 4………………………………………………………………………………………..5
4.1 DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION…………………………………………………………………5
5.0 CHAPTER 5 ………………………………………………………………....................................6
5.1 RECOMMENDATION AND CONCLUSION…………………………………………….6
6.0 CHAPTER 6………………………………………………………………………………………7
5.1 REFERENCE…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..7

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